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| Mortgage Applications Ebbed This Week, But Next Week Could Be a Different Story | ||
| 4/4/2025 1:59 PM | ||
| The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released the latest mortgage application data this week showing a modest 1.6% decrease from the previous week. A slight uptick in purchase applications was more than offset by a downtick in refi applications, but both remain in solid territory relative to the prevailing range and interest rate environmen...Read More | ||
| Pending Home Sales Crack Half-Hearted Smile Amid Longer Term Depression | ||
| 3/28/2025 4:16 PM | ||
| The National Association of Realtors" Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) tracks purchase contract signings that have not yet turned into Existing Home Sales. Things haven"t been going well for either sales metric for more than 2 years now--a problem that can be blamed on a combination of factors led by it"s proximity to the sharpest interest rate spik...Read More | ||
| Purchase Applications Improve; Refinancing Ebbs | ||
| 3/28/2025 3:19 PM | ||
| This week"s update on refinance application demand accurately reflects the fact that rates came into the week near their recent highs, but managed to fall in line with recent lows several days later. The net effect for the Mortgage Bankers Associations (MBA) Refinance Index was a modest drop from last week while remaining elevated relative to the t...Read More | ||
| New Home Sales Should Come With a Warning | ||
| 3/28/2025 2:52 PM | ||
| It"s not uncommon for certain medications to come with warnings about avoiding certain activities like driving or operating heavy machinery due to the risk of drowsiness. But medications aren"t the only causes of such sleepiness. Just ask the latest New Home Sales report from Census Bureau! There are several ways to establish the soporific n...Read More | ||
| Home Price Growth Remains Drama-Free | ||
| 3/28/2025 2:29 PM | ||
| There are two dominant home price indices released each month in the U.S. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is responsible for the most all-inclusive tally of home prices via its Home Price Index (HPI). S&P Case Shiller provides the private sector"s largest HPI, which tends to capture more volatility than FHFA. Both indices...Read More | ||
| Highest Existing Home Sales in a Year | ||
| 3/21/2025 3:04 PM | ||
| As is the case with a majority of housing and mortgage market data these days, the Existing Home Sales data from NAR is heavily dependent on context. To be sure, the headline is true. You"d have to go back to report that came out in February, 2024 to see a higher annual pace of sales. (NOTE: the table above contains initially-reported numbers.&n...Read More | ||
| Refi Demand Remains Elevated, But Off Recent Highs | ||
| 3/21/2025 2:49 PM | ||
| The Mortgage Bankers Association conducts a weekly survey on the level of mortgage applications, both for purchases and refinances. Both data series continue to be a tale of two decidedly different eras for the mortgage market. If we focus on the present era, for a moment, refi demand continued to enjoy a relative boom thanks to rates ...Read More | ||
| Builders Broke More Ground Than Expected in February | ||
| 3/21/2025 2:25 PM | ||
| The Census Bureau released its New Residential Construction report this week, frequently referred to by its principal component "housing starts" (a term for the start of the first phase of new home construction, aka "breaking ground"). In addition to housing starts, the data also logs building permits as well as completions. As we often note, buil...Read More | ||
| Builder Confidence Hits 7 Month Low in March | ||
| 3/21/2025 2:03 PM | ||
| The National Association of Homebuilders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (aka "builder confidence") hasn"t been in a purgatory of sorts, ever since the big interest rate spike in the 2nd half of 2022. Builders aren"t nearly as downbeat as they were during the Great Financial Crisis years, but nowhere remotely as confident as the during the p...Read More | ||
| Big Bounce in Refi Demand Thanks to Lower Rates | ||
| 3/7/2025 1:25 PM | ||
| As we noted last week, the timing of the improvements in mortgage rates meant that the previous survey of mortgage applications from the MBA was unable to capture what would likely prove to be a fairly big uptick in refinance demand. This week"s data confirmed it as the refi index jumped to the best levels since October. Unsurprising...Read More | ||